"What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962 film) What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? is a 1962 American psychological thriller–horror film produced and directed by Robert Aldrich, starring Bette Davis and Joan Crawford, about an aging former actress who holds her paraplegic ex-movie star sister captive in an old Hollywood mansion. The screenplay by Lukas Heller is based on the novel ""What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?"" by Henry Farrell. Upon the film's release, it was met with widespread critical and box office acclaim and was later nominated for five Academy Awards, winning one for Best Costume Design, Black and"
"Baby Jane Hudson Baby Jane Hudson is a fictional character and the antagonist of Henry Farrell's 1960 novel ""What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?"" She was portrayed by Bette Davis in the 1962 film adaptation and by Lynn Redgrave in the 1991 made-for-TV remake. The 1962 production is the better-known, with Bette Davis earning an Academy Award nomination for her performance. The character is portrayed by Susan Sarandon, who plays Bette Davis, in the TV anthology ""Feud: Bette and Joan"" aired in 2017. At the start of the book, Baby Jane Hudson is a highly successful child star in vaudeville,"
"are shown the other characters speak with praise for her acting. (Davis's scenes, from the film ""Ex-Lady"", are deliberately presented out of context to make Jane Hudson's performance seem amateurish.) Baby Jane Hudson Baby Jane Hudson is a fictional character and the antagonist of Henry Farrell's 1960 novel ""What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?"" She was portrayed by Bette Davis in the 1962 film adaptation and by Lynn Redgrave in the 1991 made-for-TV remake. The 1962 production is the better-known, with Bette Davis earning an Academy Award nomination for her performance. The character is portrayed by Susan Sarandon, who plays"
"Happened to Baby Jane?"" can be heard in the movie. In 1964 Burton released a single entitled ""The Next Day"", which was co-written by Perry Botkin, Jr. with Harry Nilsson. The song was featured on the 2004 compilation ""Girls Go Zonk: US Beat Chicks and Harmony Honeys"". The single ""Baby It's Over"" (Capitol 1966) was also written by Nilsson and produced by Botkin. Debbie Burton Debbie Burton was an American singer. She is best known for dubbing the singing voice of the young Baby Jane Hudson (played by child actress Julie Allred) in the 1962 film ""What Ever Happened to"
"Davis as Baby Jane Hudson and Joan Crawford as Blanche Hudson. The 1950 Billy Wilder classic ""Sunset Boulevard"" shares thematic similarities (their respective central characters both psychotically deranged formerly-glamorous older women) with ""What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?"" and can be seen as a precursor to the genre. ""Baby Jane"" set many trends and more-or-less defined the genre: the theatrical performance, the trappings of wealth and Hollywood, and psychologically complex melodrama. Jane goes quite insane over the course of the movie, torturing her crippled sister and venting long-pent up hostilities and guilt. At the end of the film, Blanche makes"
"into Sadie's forgiving eyes before making his birthday wish. Actors James Dunn, Leif Erickson, Arthur Jarrett, Donald Woods and Robert Young were all considered for the role of Tommy Wallace. Gene Raymond was eventually cast. Musicians Otto Heimel and Candy Candido, who were then considered ""the hottest boys this side of Hades"", made their screen debuts as Coco and Candy in this film. Footage from this film is included in the 1962 film ""What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?"", to represent the 1930s film acting of Joan Crawford's character Blanche Hudson. In general, the film received mixed reviews from the"
"What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (novel) What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? is an American suspense novel by Henry Farrell published in 1960 by Rinehart & Company. The novel has earned a cult following, and has been adapted for the screen twice - in 1962 and 1991. This gothic story deals with two aging sisters, Jane and Blanche Hudson, who are living alone together in a decaying Hollywood mansion. A former child star of early vaudeville known as ""Baby Jane"", Jane was spoiled, pampered, and doted upon by her father due to her success on the stage; her ignored"
"been left near-penniless following Alfred Steele's death, accepted a small role in ""The Best of Everything"" (1959). Although she was not the star of the film, she received positive reviews. Crawford would later name the role as being one of her personal favorites. By 1961 Joan Crawford was once again her own publicity machine with a new script, ""Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?"", sent by Robert Aldrich. Crawford starred as Blanche Hudson, an elderly, disabled former A-list movie star who lives in fear of her psychotic sister Jane, in the highly successful psychological thriller ""What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?"""
"parody of ""What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?"" called ""Wha' Ha' Happened to Baby JJ?""</nowiki> was made by Alaska and Alyssa Edwards. The backstage battle between Crawford and Davis during the production of the film is the basis for ""Feud: Bette and Joan"", the 2017 first season of the Ryan Murphy television series ""Feud"". It stars Jessica Lange as Crawford and Susan Sarandon as Davis. It premiered on March 5, 2017. What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962 film) What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? is a 1962 American psychological thriller–horror film produced and directed by Robert Aldrich, starring Bette"
"out of $9,000 that he found on a sidewalk. In 1966, he had an uncredited role as the bartender in the Elvis Presley vehicle ""Frankie and Johnny"". Willock is probably most familiar to modern audiences from his performance as Baby Jane Hudson's father in the opening scenes of the cult classic ""What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?"" (1962). He played seven different characters on CBS's ""Green Acres"" with Eddie Albert and Eva Gabor, mostly portraying clerks or elevator operators. Willock also did voice acting for animated roles, such as the offscreen narrator on ""Wacky Races"" (1968) and as father Augustus"
"manipulated by an obsessed fan. The film was one of the biggest hits of 1950, and she was again nominated for an Academy Award, but lost to Judy Holliday. Although Davis earned strong reviews for her performance in ""The Star"" (1952), her career waned throughout the remainder of the decade. Beginning in the 1960s, Davis received yet another revival in popularity. Although her appearance in ""Pocketful of Miracles"" (1961) was negatively received, she earned praise for her portrayal of the faded child star, Jane Hudson, in ""What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?"" (1962), which garnered her a final nomination for"
"though her films were unavailable, leading to her jealousy. What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (novel) What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? is an American suspense novel by Henry Farrell published in 1960 by Rinehart & Company. The novel has earned a cult following, and has been adapted for the screen twice - in 1962 and 1991. This gothic story deals with two aging sisters, Jane and Blanche Hudson, who are living alone together in a decaying Hollywood mansion. A former child star of early vaudeville known as ""Baby Jane"", Jane was spoiled, pampered, and doted upon by her father"
"Hudson, made for Douglas' company at Universal. Aldrich tried to make ""Cross of Iron"" with John Mills but could not get finance. Aldrich then went back to Italy where he directed a Biblical spectacular, ""Sodom and Gomorrah"" (1962) for Joseph E. Levine. Aldrich disparaged the final film, which ended up costing $6 million. Aldrich rejuvenated his career by optioning the novel ""What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?"" (1962) for the Associates and Aldrich Company. He signed Bette Davis and Joan Crawford as stars, got Lukas Heller to write the script, and raised finance through Warner Bros. The film was a"
"""cult classic"". In 2003 the character of Baby Jane Hudson was ranked No. 44 on the American Film Institute's list of the ""50 Best Villains of American Cinema"". In 1917, ""Baby Jane"" Hudson is a well-known vaudevillian child star while her older sister Blanche lives in her shadow. By 1935, their fortunes have reversed: Blanche is a successful film actress and Jane lives in obscurity, her films having failed. One night, Jane, able to imitate Blanche's voice perfectly, mocks her at a party. That same night, Blanche is paralyzed from the waist down in a mysterious car accident that is"
"""What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?"" (1962). The film starred Bette Davis and Joan Crawford, and Buono played the ne'er-do-well musical accompanist Edwin Flagg, a performance for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture. Shortly after ""What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?"", Buono appeared in ""Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte"" (1964) as Big Sam Hollis, the father of Bette Davis, who played the title role. The film was also directed by Aldrich. In the Biblical epic ""The Greatest Story Ever Told"" (1965), Buono portrayed"
"35th Academy Awards The 35th Academy Awards, honoring the best in film for 1962, were held on April 8, 1963, at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in Santa Monica, California, hosted by Frank Sinatra. The Best Actress Oscar occasioned the last act of the long-running feud between Joan Crawford and Bette Davis. They had starred together for the first time in ""What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?"", a surprise hit the previous summer. Davis was nominated for her role as the title character, a faded child star who humiliates the wheelchair-bound sister who eclipsed her fame in adulthood, while Crawford"
"minor role as the next-door neighbor's daughter in ""What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?"" (1962), in which her mother co-starred with Joan Crawford. These were her only acting appearances on film. B. D. met Jeremy Hyman, the British nephew of Seven Arts Productions owner Elliott Hyman, on a blind date for the film's showing at the Cannes Film Festival in 1963, and the couple wed when B. D. was age 16 and Jeremy was age 29. Her mother Bette Davis gave her consent and publicly supported this underage marriage. The couple remain wed after 50-plus years and have two sons,"
"with her sister Vanessa in ""Three Sisters"" in London, and in the title role of Baby Jane Hudson in a television production of ""What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?"" in 1991. She made a return to films in the late 1990s in films such as ""Shine"" (1996) and ""Gods and Monsters"" (1998) for which she received another Academy Award nomination. Lynn Redgrave is the only person to have been nominated for all of the 'Big Four' American entertainment awards (Grammy, Emmy, Oscar and Tony) without winning any of them. Redgrave was born in Marylebone, London, to actors Sir Michael Redgrave"
"Debbie Burton Debbie Burton was an American singer. She is best known for dubbing the singing voice of the young Baby Jane Hudson (played by child actress Julie Allred) in the 1962 film ""What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?"", singing the song ""I've Written a Letter to Daddy"". Burton also sang a duet with Bette Davis, the rock and roll song ""What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?"", written by Frank DeVol and Lukas Heller. It was released as a promotional single, with Burton's rendition of ""I've Written a Letter to Daddy"" on the flipside. An instrumental version of ""What Ever"
"received his fourth nomination for ""Mildred Pierce"", and Crawford won the award for Best Actress. With this as a start, Haller continued to photograph Crawford in several other films, including ""Humoresque"" (1946) and ""What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?"" Although Haller terminated his contract with the Warner Brothers in 1951, he was the best choice to photograph Bette Davis and Joan Crawford— two of the closest actresses that Haller has worked with and the ex-Warner stars. He was brought back to photograph the only film the two would appear together. In ""What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?"", Davis made the"
"film, ""Lady for a Day""), based on a story by Damon Runyon. She accepted her next role, in the Grand Guignol horror film ""What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?"" (1962), after reading the script and believing it could appeal to the same audience that had recently made Alfred Hitchcock's ""Psycho"" (1960) a success. She negotiated a deal that would pay her 10% of the worldwide gross profits in addition to her salary. The film became one of the year's biggest successes. Davis and Joan Crawford played two aging sisters, former actresses forced by circumstance to share a decaying Hollywood mansion."
"(1962). Despite the actresses' earlier tensions, Crawford reportedly suggested Bette Davis for the role of Jane. The two stars maintained publicly that there was no feud between them. The director, Robert Aldrich, fueling publicity rumors, explained that Davis and Crawford were each aware of how important the film was to their respective careers, and commented, ""It's proper to say that they really detested each other, but they behaved absolutely perfectly."" After filming was completed, their public comments against each other propelled their animosity into a lifelong feud. The film was a huge success, recouping its costs within eleven days of"
"a television production of ""Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?"" again with her sister. Highlights of her early film career also include ""The National Health"", ""Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask)"", ""The Happy Hooker"" and ""Getting It Right"". In the United States, she was seen on such television series as ""Teachers Only"", ""House Calls"", ""Centennial"" and ""Chicken Soup"". She also starred in BBC productions such as ""The Faint-Hearted Feminist"", ""A Woman Alone"", ""Death of a Son"", ""Calling the Shots,"" and ""Fighting Back"". She played Broadway again in ""Moon Over Buffalo"" (1996) with co-star Robert"
"""Two for the Seesaw"". He also produced other motion pictures for theater exhibition through other companies that he formed. In 1960 Mr. Hyman went on his own again to form Seven Arts Productions and engaged in worldwide distribution of feature films for television. At the same time Seven Arts directly financed and produced a number of films, including ""Lolita"" (1962), ""Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?"" (1962), and ""Seven Days in May"" (1964). He also guided Seven Arts into stage production, including Broadway presentations of ""The Night of the Iguana"", ""Funny Girl"", ""The Owl and the Pussycat"" and several other shows."
"Train"". She made a guest appearance on ""Perry Mason"" as Crystal Durham in ""The Case of the Unsuitable Uncle"" (1962). In 1958 she returned to Britain to appear in John Ford's ""Gideon's Day"", in which she played the detective's wife. She had a small, but memorable, role as Sister Margaretta in ""The Sound of Music"", one of the two nuns who thwarted the Nazis by removing car engine parts, allowing the Von Trapps to escape. Lee appeared in the 1962 classic ""What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?"" in a small role as Mrs. Bates, a neighbour of the sisters played"
"Award presenter Paddy Chayefsky, and sparked controversy. One Redgrave biography noted that ""The scandal of her awards speech and the negative press it occasioned had a destructive effect on her acting opportunities that would last for years to come."" Later film roles include those of suffragist Olive Chancellor in ""The Bostonians"" (1984, a fourth Best Actress Academy Award nomination), transsexual tennis player Renée Richards in ""Second Serve"" (1986), Blanche Hudson in the television remake of ""What Ever Happened to Baby Jane"" (1991), Mrs. Wilcox in ""Howards End"" (1992, her sixth Academy Award nomination, this time in a supporting role); crime"
"Rock Hudson Rock Hudson (born Roy Harold Scherer, Jr.; November 17, 1925 – October 2, 1985) was an American actor, generally known for his turns as a leading man during the 1950s and 1960s. Viewed as a prominent ""heartthrob"" of the Hollywood Golden Age, he achieved stardom with roles in films such as ""Magnificent Obsession"" (1954), ""All That Heaven Allows"" (1955) and ""Giant"" (1956), for which he received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor, and found continued success with a string of romantic comedies co-starring Doris Day in ""Pillow Talk"" (1959), ""Lover Come Back"" (1961) and ""Send"
"The principal roles were originated on Broadway by Hermione Gingold (Madame Rosepettle), Sam Waterston (Jonathan, her awkward son), Alix Elias (Rosalie, seductive babysitter), and Sandor Szabo (Commodore Roseabove). The director was Jerome Robbins. Kopit won the 1962 Drama Desk Award, Vernon Rice Award. The play was turned into a film of the same name in 1967 starring Rosalind Russell, Robert Morse and Barbara Harris and directed by Richard Quine. In the film version, Harris reprised her role of Rosalie from the 1962 Off-Broadway version of the play. Described by the author as a ""farce in three scenes"", the story involves"
"It then moved to Broadway, and was later produced as a 1962 feature film. Both the play and film featured Anne Bancroft as Sullivan. Patty Duke, who played Keller on Broadway and in the 1962 film version, later played Sullivan in a 1979 television remake. Roma Downey portrayed her in the TV movie ""Monday After the Miracle"" (1998). Alison Elliott portrayed her in a 2000 television movie. Alison Pill played her on Broadway in the short-lived 2010 revival, with Abigail Breslin as Keller. Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke won Academy Awards for Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress, respectively, for"
"Jane Holzer Jane Holzer (née Bruckenfeld; born October 23, 1940) is an American art collector and film producer who was previously an actress, model, and Warhol superstar. She was often known by the nickname Baby Jane Holzer. The daughter of real estate investor Carl Bruckenfeld, she married Leonard Holzer, an heir to a New York real estate fortune. Holzer was noted for including art projects in his developments, particularly at the Smith Haven Mall. Movies she appeared in included Andy Warhol's ""Soap Opera"" (1964), ""Couch"" (1964), and ""Camp"" (1965), and the independently produced ""Ciao! Manhattan"" (1972). She co-produced the 1985"
"Rock Hudson, and ""Avanti!"" (1972) in which he was a very convincing agent of the State Department. Among his other film credits are ""The Young Savages"" (1961), ""The Young Doctors"" (1961), ""Advise & Consent"" (1962), ""The Thrill of It All"" (1963), ""Good Neighbor Sam"" (1964), ""Youngblood Hawke"" (1964), ""Kisses for My President"" (1964), ""The Glass Bottom Boat"" (1966); ""The Trouble with Girls"" (1969) with Elvis Presley, ""Tora! Tora! Tora!"" (1970) as Admiral Harold R. Stark, ""How to Frame a Figg"" (1971), ""The Million Dollar Duck"" (1971), ""Now You See Him, Now You Don't"" (1972), ""Charley and the Angel"" (1973), and"
"with Elvira's murder see Blanche lying motionless on the sand and rush to her. The film ends without revealing whether Blanche survives her ordeal. Bette Davis created her own makeup for the role of ""Baby Jane"" Hudson. Director Robert Aldrich said it closely matched his idea for the character's grotesque makeup, but he was afraid to suggest it lest he offend Davis. Unlike most of her peers in Hollywood, Davis was unafraid to wear ugly costumes and makeup if they enhanced her performance. She wore unflattering makeup portraying a vain socialite disfigured by diphtheria in ""Mr. Skeffington"" (1944), and donned"
"movie stars, and one of the highest-paid women in the United States. In 1945 she starred in ""Mildred Pierce"" and won the Academy Award for Best Actress. She would go on to receive Best Actress nominations for ""Possessed"" (1947) and ""Sudden Fear"" (1952). Crawford continued to act in film and television throughout the 1950s and 1960s; she achieved box office success with the highly successful horror film ""Whatever Happened To Baby Jane?"" (1962), in which she starred alongside Bette Davis, her long-time rival. In 1955, Crawford became involved with the Pepsi-Cola Company through her marriage to company Chairman and Chief"